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Denim Demon - Brand Identity Preview 23 01 2012
Last week the denim industry made their bi-annual pilgrimage to Berlin. Heading for Bread & Butter, Seek and other premium fairs. This weekend Modefabriek, Amsterdam was the tradeshow not to be missed. Among the international contributors was Stockholm based Denim Demon. Who have close ties to the indigenous Sami people of northern Sweden and share a great passion for authentic denim heritage. For the last half year Boy Bastiaens has worked on the label’s new brand identity which will be published on stormhand.com this spring.
International Visual Communication is about symbolic and independent design vocabularies. The book selected 347 highly remarkable design works from over 40 countries. Ranging from poster design to illustration to wayfinding to book design. For the packaging section Liaoning Science and Technology Press included the packaging range developed for Atelier LaDurance. Foreword by Marc Atlan.
International Visual Communication, Liaoning Science and Technology Press, China, ISBN-10: 9881950899
Youkoso (welcome). Shirotokuro is a shortened form of ‘Shiroi to kuroi’ which is Japanese for ‘black and white’. Shirotokuro.com is a curated gallery of exquisite design, illustration and photography distilled to it’s purest monochromatic elements of black and white. Great to see the K KarL Lagerfeld pixelportrait featured at this simple yet ultimate sophisticated website.
Pica Magazine #3 - The Process - 08 11 2011
Pica Magazine is an initiative of the students of UQAM School of Design, Montreal, Canada. For each edition of their annual publication they recruit designers to collaborate and experiment graphically on the magazine’s exploring theme. Boy Bastiaens was one of the foreign designers invited to participate in the Pica # 3 -Process- issue. Which was launched, together with a small exhibition of collaborators work, at the Centre de Design in Montreal, November 2nd.
